President Joe Biden faces trouble in Pennsylvania, as his main counties of support have experienced an unusually high level of emigration.
by just 80,555 votes in 2020. Philadelphia County and Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s second-largest city, were two of his biggest areas of support that helped him over the top. Census data revealed that Philadelphia County experienced some of the most significant emigration in the country, potentially hurting Biden’s election chances.
The sun illuminates the Philadelphia skyline as it sets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. “The biggest losses at the county level were in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County and Philadelphia. And those are two of the big centers of Biden’s support,” Berwood Yost, director of Floyd Institute’s Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College,
“And so does that affect his ability to win by large margins in those counties? That’s a real issue,” he added. “Uneven patterns of in- and out-migration could work to make what was a closely contested 2020 presidential campaign even closer in 2024,” he said.a press release from the Census Bureau, Allegheny and Philadelphia collectively lost 24,074 residents compared to the year prior. The data were collected up until July 1, 2023.
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